Music inspired by Prehistoric Sites, with Youtube and Bandcamp links - Part 1
Submitted by Andy B on Thursday, 11 January 2018 Page Views: 4382
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First up is Nine Stones Close by ace fingerpicking guitarist Nick Jonah Davis from Nottingham, so not a million miles from those Derbyshire sites.
The album Of Time and Tides is available on Bandcamp.com
2. It turns out there's also a prog rock band called Nine Stones Close, so check them out too: Youtube - Bandcamp
3. Stanton Drew by folk band Titus - a song about the legend of the fiddlers playing past midnight into the Sabbath and everyone being turned to stone! This is them live at Bexhill Museum. If you can't wait, the song Stanton Drew starts at 5'20".
4. While I was researching the above one the next video that came up was The Wedding at Stanton Drew by Bully Wee Band, which is a totally different song about the same legend - but which does involve fiddles, so I can see the attraction for folk musicians!
5. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.9 The second movement alludes to “Stonehenge” and “Tess”, that is her arrest at Stonehenge in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles. The symphony was composed in 1956-7, much of it while staying in the picturesque village of Ashmansworth in Hampshire, home of the composer, Gerald Finzi, and only 30 miles from Salisbury. It was first performed under the baton of Sir Malcolm Sargent on 2nd April 1958 only four months before Vaughan Williams' death at the age of 86.
6. A circle inside a Circle by James Holden: - With a cover clearly inspired by the Rock Art of Northumberland, you could call this folk-techo with a nod to Steve Reich. One if you like your electronic music a bit organic and unprocessed, If alternative music blog The Quietus call his album, The Inheritors an “exhausting, complex and disorientating listen” you know you’re in for something wild.
7. Doggerland by Ian Anderson, from his 2014 album Homo Erraticus. Doggerland would have been well and truly flooded under the North Sea the time by the time the first engineer thought to erect a standing stone, so this one is for the Mesolithic enthusiasts. Ian also wrote and performed the song Dun Ringill with Jethro Tull, about an Iron Age ‘broch-like structure’, to be completely accurate - as we try hard to be. The lyrics of this also mention waiting in stone circles.
8. Stonehenge by Spinal Tap - we couldn’t finish without this old favourite, which after the first performance caused band member David St. Hubbins to complain that the “Stonehenge monument on stage ... was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf!”
I hadn't previously seen that Youtube has a 15 minute version from the Workprint of 'This Is Spinal Tap', featuring the full unedited performance of 'Stonehenge' and a much longer edit of the ensuing band meeting.
More music inspired by prehistoric sites next time, see the Youtube links for more from these artists, and also try ytmp3.com. If you can't wait for more music selections, head over to our forum where I've been collecting these for some time, and do support the artists if you like these tracks.
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